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Comment Re: Open Source (Score 1) 79

Also quite a bit more awkward.

RH was on a trajectory to decently compete with VMware as a decent virtualization platform on technical merit, but I think they found VMware being first meant there wasn't much interest in changing.

So they ditched RHEV and chased "cloud" with open stack... Except open stack was never that great, and the demand for a fully realized on premise "cloud" didn't follow from off premise cloud anyway...

So red hat changed to openshift and kind of sort of shoehorned VMs awkwardly to provide some whiff of continuity to customers otherwise abandoned for trying to adopt RHEV or Open Stack from red hat.

Proxmox I think it's on the best position for providing the old fashioned VMware user experience now (in some ways better).

Comment Oh look.. (Score 2) 41

Another company whose business strategy requires customers believe they have a handle on this 'AI thing' claim they have a handle on this 'AI thing'.

Maybe they do, maybe they don't, but it's hardly a trustworthy source of truth rather than just doing their marketing work for them by relaying their marketing effort as 'news'.

Comment Re:You know what... (Score 1) 367

You can't put your house on public land or in the middle of a road.

Cars get in the way of anybody else using a location, *including other cars!!!!*. Yet for some reason any attempt to move them out of the way causes insane illogical reactions such as yours. Very sad and maybe the underlying cause of the obesity epidemic. The fear of having to walk is unbelievable and is warping people's minds.

Comment Re:You know what... (Score 1) 367

It does seem very likely that the amount of CO2 you produce for the rest of your life is greater than the amount produced if you dropped dead right now and decomposed. And if you always include the decomposition after death, living longer obviously generates more CO2.

I'm unsure about the rate, especially if nothing is done to slow the decomposition. Possibly you will produce CO2 and methane much quicker for a few days.

Serious note: CO2 from living sources that get all their energy from plants or animals who eat plants are not a problem, as this is a short-term closed cycle. But then you don't get to make funny jokes.

Comment Re:More an indictment of Universities... (Score 3, Interesting) 126

While I'm sure some of this is doom and gloom about AI "takin' yer jobs". I think more of it is that CS at universities has strayed further and further from practical coding skills while charging more and more

It may be the other way around: that the industry's idea of what "practical skills" means is changing faster than the universities' ability to keep up. By the time the Unis have adopted a technology, come up with a curriculum around it, found professors to teach it, and taught it to a graduating class of students, that technology is already considered obsolete and is no longer of much value to anyone looking to hire.

Dunno what the solution to that is, other than teaching the fundamentals and leaving it up to the students to apply them to technology stack du jour after they graduate.

Comment Re:You know what... (Score 1) 367

It's obviously lack of walking. People in America were eating piles of (possibly worse) junk food in the 50's and 60's, and everybody watched TV for hours a day, and way fewer went to the gym. But people walked to work or the train station or the park, and kids walked to school or at least the bus stop. Today just looking the population of places people walk (NYC) should make it obvious. You think NYC does not have lots and lots of junk food?

Unfortunately people are so in love with their cars they refuse to see it. The reaction to even the most mild attempt to restrict the ability to drive your personal car as close as possible to any location is pretty telling.

Comment Lifespan of cars in the future (Score 3, Insightful) 22

This type of supply chain breakage is why I think we have already passed peak automobile lifetime (cars built 1990-2010): in the future when critical parts fail there won't be any spares, and unless one is willing to take on 10s of thousands of dollars of firmware modding no workarounds either. I would not expect cars sold after 2010 to have lifetimes of more than 10 years or so.

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